As you may have noticed, we’ve started to blog most of our announcements on the .NET blog. As of today, we are officially merging the BCL blog with the .NET blog. Originally, the .NET blog was the CLR’s team blog. Back in those days, we’ve basically split the content according to feature area: runtime features…

Two weeks ago, we published a beta of HttpClient that provides support for automatic decompression. Since then, we’ve received a fair amount of feedback, especially around the fact that it relies on a native implementation of compression that isn’t available on the same platforms as HttpClient. Today, we’ve published another beta of HttpClient that will…

Today we’re happy to announce that we released two NuGet packages: A brand new Microsoft.Bcl.Compression (Beta). A portable compression library that supports stream based compression (gzip, deflate) as well as ZIP archives. An updated Microsoft.Net.Http 2.2 (Beta). Last week we shipped an RTM version. Today, we released a new beta that provides automatic decompression by…

Three months ago we shipped the first preview of the portable HttpClient. Many of you wondered when we would ship the RTM version. Today, we’re happy to announce the first step towards an RTM: We shipped a release candidate (RC) of HttpClient (Microsoft.Net.Http package on NuGet) that includes all the bug fixes since the preview.Want…

It’s done. About five months ago, we shipped our Microsoft.Bcl.Async NuGet package which provides support for the async/await keywords for pre-.NET 4.5 platforms, such as .NET 4, Silverlight 4, and Windows Phone 7.5. Of course, this includes support for portable class libraries as well. We believe we’ve baked Microsoft.Bcl.Async enough to flip the switch and…

After introducing immutable collections three months ago, it’s now time to peek behind the curtain. What did we learn from the preview? How do they work? What trade-offs did we make? Are they different from persistent data structures? Those are the kind of questions we’ll cover in the second episode on Channel 9 about immutable…

Thanks a lot for your great feedback! Two months ago, we shipped a NuGet package with support for immutable collections. We’ve also talked about it on Channel 9. Since then we received feedback through various channels and we’re happy to announce we shipped an update on NuGet that addresses your feedback. Feedback Channels First of…

Many of you told us you want HttpClient for Windows Phone. In this post, Alok Shriram, a Program Manager on the .NET Framework team, will talk about an important announcement of ours. –Immo Today we are announcing our Beta release of the portable version of HttpClient, the modern networking API. The HttpClient library is a set…